Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Aversion to man; dread of meeting persons.
Wiktionary
- n. A profound fear of human beings, or of human society.
Examples
“That some cynic had lately bitten him by the brain -- and possibly a cynic himself in a nearly rabid stage of anthropophobia -- we might conclude as reasonably from consideration of the whole as from examination of the parts more especially and virulently affected: yet how much is here also of hyper-Platonic subtlety and sublimity, of golden and”
“For some of us, it is other people who inspire in our hearts the greatest palpitations -- anthropophobia.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘anthropophobia’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 1051 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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phobias
acrophobia, aerophobia, agoraphobia, astrophobia, androphobia, claustrophobia, aquaphobia, genophobia, homophobia, haemophobia, monophobia, pyrophobia and 20 more...
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-phobia
extreme or irrational fear or dislike
arachnophobia, photophobia, claustrophobia, phobophobia, ailurophobia, agrophobia, acrophobia, agoraphobia, anthropophobia, aerophobia, acarophobia, anthrophobia and 26 more...
jmjarmstrong JM was really looking forward to the Anthropophobia Society party but nobody turned up! Dec 17, 2010